Heart of Glass
1976 · Movie · NR · 94 min · ★ 6.6 · 87% critics
In 18th-century rural Bavaria, a village known for its prized ruby glass spirals into depression after the glassworks foreman dies without revealing the secret. With the town’s livelihoods hanging on the craft, the owner becomes increasingly fixated on finding what was lost.
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Details
- Original title
- Herz aus Glas
- Years
- 1976
- Release date
- 1976-11-12
- Language
- German
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 87/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (129 votes)
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy haunting, art-house weirdness and can sit with a story that feels more like mood than momentum; Not for you if you want clear plot, fast pacing, or straightforward drama like Fata Morgana or Even Dwarfs Started Small.
Pros: stunning Bavarian scenery; haunting atmosphere; impressive glassblowing scenes | Cons: confusing, plot-light; slow, hard to engage; divided hypnosis performances
Themes
- dreams
- allegory
- hypnosis
Cast & crew
Josef Bierbichler
as Hias
- SG
Stefan Güttler
as Hüttenbesitzer
Clemens Scheitz
as Adalbert, the servant
- SS
Sonja Skiba
as Ludmilla
Volker Prechtel
as Wudy
- BK
Brunhilde Klöckner
as Paulin
- WA
Wolf Albrecht
as Sam
- TB
Thomas Binkley
as Lute player
- JF
Janos Fischer
as Ägide
- WF
Wilhelm Friedrich
Directed by Werner Herzog